I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
If I was gay, why would I hide it?
It’s okay for me to be gay, but God didn’t make me that way.
When you’re a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
But Vegas is really my first home.
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
I need a form of escape even when I’m working really hard.
I’m really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I’ve got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn’t work. It’s good effort. It’s hard work. But, it’s not work. It doesn’t feel like work because the result is very rewarding.
Magic is the only profession where it’s easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you’re a great magician.
To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it’s usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That’s what I’ve really championed through my career.
My job is to make people dream. Of course, there’s a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.
Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.